Posts Tagged ‘Web development’

Context: I work for Forward Partners which is a catalyst for ecommerce startups. We provide a unique combination of funding and help from our hands-on experts – product, design, marketing, front and back-end development, talent and fundraising. I work predominantly with idea-stage businesses until they have achieved enough growth to start hiring their own team.

Start-ups often use ready-made frameworks and tools in order to get an idea from concept to production in the quickest and most efficient way they can, such as Ruby on Rails, jQuery and Bootstrap. I’ll be explaining why I choose not to use Bootstrap when creating websites for our early/idea-stage businesses. (more…)

Having spent just over two years working as a front-end developer on Ruby on Rails projects I’ve become pretty handy with ERB, HAML & SASS but when it comes to looking further into the back-end stack I’ve been hesitant to do anything except look at the code and write the occasional simple helper for my views. I’ve had an idea for a while and I decided to bite the bullet and make it myself.

The site is I love your style. The idea is to be able to ask beauty or fashion questions directly to those people you admire, as an aside you can also ask the wider community. The grand vision is for it to be a Stack Overflow for beauty and fashion. (more…)